Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73

§3114 Regional and structural employment policies and programs

Title 15 › Chapter CHAPTER 58— - FULL EMPLOYMENT AND BALANCED GROWTH › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - STRUCTURAL ECONOMIC POLICIES AND PROGRAMS INCLUDING TREATMENT OF RESOURCE RESTRAINTS › § 3114

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

If the President decides it is appropriate and needed, the President must propose laws to Congress for regional and structural job and economic programs to meet related goals. When writing the regional parts of those programs, the President should push for private companies to locate and hire in areas with high unemployment and help small businesses grow where possible. Any regional plan must also analyze how federal tax, spending (including buying goods and services), defense, transportation, energy, natural resource, and employment policies have moved people, jobs, and businesses away from hard-hit areas and include ideas to fix federal policies that hurt those regions.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §3114

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(a)To the extent deemed appropriate by the President in fulfillment of the purposes of section 3111 of this title, the President shall recommend legislation to the Congress if necessary, regional and structural employment policies and programs.

(b)In formulating the regional components of any such programs, the President shall encourage to the extent the President deems necessary, new private sector production and employment to locate within depressed localities and regions with substantial unemployment and to aid in stabilizing their economic base. To the extent feasible, such policies and programs shall foster the establishment and growth of smaller businesses in such localities and regions. Any regional employment proposal of the President shall also include an analysis of the extent to which Federal tax, expenditure (including procurement of goods and services), defense, transportation, energy, natural resources and employment policies have influenced the movement of people, jobs, and small and larger business and industries from chronic high unemployment regions and areas, and proposals designed to correct Federal policies that have an adverse economic impact upon such regions and areas.

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15 U.S.C. § 3114

Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73